Small Clouds(2025)

Storyline

Two siblings run away and have adventures on an old, broken ship. Their journey together is fun and exciting, but as they get older, they begin to grow distant from each other.

“A childhood voyage, drifting toward different shores.”

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Cast & Crew

Trivia

• The film's title 'Small Clouds' is a direct translation of the Hindi phrase 'Chhote Baadal', which is also the original working title.
• Director Shubham Sumit wrote the first draft of the script during a two-week stay in a remote coastal village in Maharashtra.
• The main ship set was built on a dry dock in Gujarat and was a real, decommissioned fishing vessel modified for filming.
• The child actors playing the siblings had never seen the ocean before their first day of shooting the adventure sequences.
• A key scene uses a 1970s Hindi film song as a nostalgic motif, but the rights were so costly the director almost cut it.
• The film was shot chronologically to help the young actors naturally portray their characters growing apart over time.
• It premiered at the International Film Festival of India in Goa before its theatrical release, winning the Best Debut Feature award.